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Author: DeAgostini Publishing Company (English)
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: Bernini's visit to Paris, like Poussin about twenty years earlier, ended in a frustrating failure. Inviting him to Paris was essentially an order imposed by King Louis XIV of France on Pope Alexander VII, one of the humiliating orders Louis XIV imposed on the Pope. Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe, and he loved to flaunt his power at every opportunity, including making the most famous artist in Europe, Bernini, serve him. Bernini's main work in Paris was designing the eastern fa?ade of the Louvre, but his proposal was not adopted, and instead, a Frenchman's design was chosen. However, Bernini left behind a masterpiece in the city: the bronze statue of Louis XIV. This book includes: The Artist's Career; The Great Frenchmen of Rome; Style and Technique; The Birth of French Classicism; Close-ups of Masterpieces; Dancing to the Music of Time God, etc. Bernini's visit to Paris, like Poussin about twenty years earlier, ended in a frustrating failure. Inviting him to Paris was essentially an order imposed by King Louis XIV of France on Pope Alexander VII, one of the humiliating orders Louis XIV imposed on the Pope. Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe, and he loved to flaunt his power at every opportunity, including making the most famous artist in Europe, Bernini, serve him. Bernini's main work in Paris was designing the eastern fa?ade of the Louvre, but his proposal was not adopted, and instead, a Frenchman's design was chosen. However, Bernini left behind a masterpiece in the city: the bronze statue of Louis XIV.